While the move did not shock anyone, the Sacramento Kings finally agreed to terms with legendary point guard Russell Westbrook on Wednesday, adding a future Hall of Famer to their roster.
Is Sacramento Kings head coach Doug Christie going to make the same mistake as his predecessor? That is to say, he hasn’t stopped being a player’s coach, his messages landing more softly on the tarmac.
Russell Westbrook is headed to Sacramento. The nine-time All-Star and 2017 MVP has agreed to a deal with the Kings, his agent Jeff Schwartz of Excel Sports Management told Shams Charania of ESPN.
After a 0-2 start to the preseason, the Sacramento Kings received more bad news regarding Keegan Murray on Sunday afternoon. The young forward underwent surgery to repair his thumb and will be reevaluated in 4-6 weeks, leaving a gaping hole in the starting lineup that Doug Christie will have to navigate.
Hakeem The Dream, Clyde The Glide, Magic: The NBA has produced some incredible nicknames over the decades. Some, like Magic and Penny, have even come to largely replace the player's actual name.
The Sacramento Kings opened up their 2025 preseason at home against the Toronto Raptors on Wednesday night, giving their home crowd a glimpse of what is to come for their 2025-26 campaign.
With the preseason now just days away, the Sacramento Kings are working hard in training camp to prepare for the 2025-26 season under first year head coach Doug Christie.
Doug Christie is entering his first full season as the Sacramento Kings head coach after he had his interim tag removed at the end of the 2024-25 campaign.
As the Sacramento Kings get underway with training camp, all attention has been on their plan to run and use defense to get out in transition. Doug Christie has a clear vision for this team to be pesky and wreak havoc on the defensive end, and use that to get easy buckets on offense.
One thing was clear on the first day of Sacramento Kings training camp: this team is going to run. We've heard this before in Sacramento, most notably in De'Aaron Fox's second season in 2018-19 when Dave Joerger led an upstart Kings team to 39-43.
If you had to sum up the Sacramento Kings media day with one overall theme, perhaps the most accurate description would be “love for Dennis Schröder”. Almost everyone who spoke on Monday had something to say about the team’s new point guard, and seemingly all of it was positive.
There has been a decent amount of speculation about Domantas Sabonis’ relationship with Doug Christie and whether he played a part in Mike Brown’s dismissal.
After removing the interim tag from head coach Doug Christie and signing him to a new multiyear contract earlier this offseason, the Kings have finalized and formally announced the coaching staff that will be working with Christie in 2025-26.
Mike Woodson is a leading candidate to become Doug Christie’s top assistant with the Kings, sources tell Sam Amick of The Athletic (X link). A report earlier on Saturday indicated that current lead assistant Jay Triano and four other coaches won’t return to Christie’s staff next season.
The Sacramento Kings agreeing to a contract extension with Doug Christie is a good move. Christie played for Sacramento in the early 2000s. Now, he will be the head coach of a team that finished with a 27-24 record after he took over as interim head coach.
The Kings will remove the interim tag from Doug Christie and make him their permanent head coach, according to Shams Charania of ESPN, who reports that the two sides are finalizing the details of a multiyear contract.
The Sacramento Kings have their man, and guess what? They already had him. That would be none other than Doug Christie, who finished the season as the Kings’ interim coach.
New Sacramento Kings general manager Scott Perry said Wednesday that he will decide on the fate of interim head coach Doug Christie hopefully within the week.
Sacramento Kings general manager Scott Perry just got the job and will now decide if interim coach Doug Christie will be keeping his. Per NBA insider Chris
The Kings are not just winning under interim coach Doug Christie, they're routinely pulling off come-from-behind victories. Enough so that the coach has now put himself in the record books just 12 games into his tenure.
The Sacramento Kings are turning to Doug Christie to take the reins after parting ways with head coach Mike Brown, per NBA insider Sam Amick of The Athletic.